Talk:Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

List of lines

 * Whiting (B&O) to Blue Island (B&OCT)
 * Built 1896 by Hammond and Blue Island Railroad
 * Wolf Lake Branch/Sheddfield Branch: Wolf Lake (IHB) to Sheddfield
 * Built 1908 by IHB
 * Shedd Estate leased: Sheddfield to Roby (PRR)
 * B&OCT McCook Branch trackage rights: Blue Island to McCook
 * McCook (B&OCT) to Franklin Park (MILW)
 * Built 1898 by Chicago, Hammond and Western Railroad
 * Franklin Park to Mannheim
 * Built 1898 by Chicago, Hammond and Western Railroad
 * Stockyards Branch: Argo (B&OCT) to Morgan Street (Union Stockyards)
 * Built 1897 by Terminal Railroad
 * East Chicago Belt: State Line (IHB) to Grasselli (NYC)
 * Built 1897 by East Chicago Belt Railroad
 * East Chicago Belt North Branch: East Chicago to Standard Oil
 * Cudahy Branch: Grasselli (NYC) to Cudahy
 * Built 1909 by IHB
 * NYC leased, Danville Branch, now Kankakee Line: Indiana Harbor to Little Calumet River
 * Built 1903 by Indiana Harbor Railroad
 * NYC leased: Gibson to Ivanhoe
 * Built by Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad
 * Gary and Western Railway leased: Ivanhoe to G&W Junction
 * NYC leased: G&W Junction to Dune Park
 * Built by Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad (from Indiana Harbor to Dune Park)


 * MC trackage rights: Calumet Park to Gibson, later Ivanhoe to Kensington (IC)
 * Built 1852 by New Albany and Salem Railroad and Union Railroad; IHB had trackage rights between Gibson and Calumet Park by 1913

The old main line, from Whiting, joined the current main line at the state line (near Calumet Park). East of Calumet Park, the current main line to Ivanhoe is a combination of the old MC trackage rights, the old IHB Gibson Yard, and the old NYC lease from Gibson to Ivanhoe. --NE2 17:43, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Purpose of the IHBRR
It would be good if one could get a sense of the history of the railroad, what brought it into being, what it was formed to carry, why it still exists, etc. Xenophonix (talk) 19:16, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

I concur. The firm has recently updated its website and the "About Us" section http://www.ihbrr.com/about_us is remarkably informative and seems to be factual in nature as (opposed to ad-copy cheerleading.) However, no specific reference is given as to the origin of numbers related to their status within the industry. (i.e did not add their claim "The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is the largest switch carrier in the U.S.") I did add their stats regarding carriage and the like since they self-report and commented on that on the Edit page.

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